The Dead John Miscellany - Softcover

Ries, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1500410667 ISBN 13: 9781500410667

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

Synopsis

John Ries was one of the Decadent Aesthetes, a not-so decadent group of writers and musicians that first centred on the town of Warminster. After Ries's death, Steve Dewey and S Carr Gogh, friends and fellow Aesthetes, sorted through the poems and short stories that Ries had left behind. Ries was a perfectionist, and could never stop editing. His executor and friends took it upon themselves to finish the job.

Ries has a voice and a vision that is uniquely his own. These stories and poems reflect that. Odd and elliptical, full of symbolism and ritual, referring obliquely to the I Ching, religion, sirens and funerary rites, the stories and poems in this miscellany have an air of elusive and illusive mystery.

About this title

About the Author

John Ries (1958-2009) loved writing. He previously co-authored the non-fiction "In Alien Heat: The Warminster Mystery Revisited" with Steve Dewey. He lived in London, Warminster in Wiltshire, London again, and then Dawley, in Shropshire. Wiltshire and Shropshire were his spiritual homes. Ries was a well-respected IT professional, but continued to write in his spare time. A perfectionist, his stories and poems were seldom seen, even by his friends. Ries and his friends were amused by the appellation The Decadent Aesthetes; sometimes mildly decadent, often preposterous aesthetes, there is something of the decadant aesthete about Ries's writing; there are hints of ritual and romance, obsession and magic, the aesthetics of the supranormal and the praeternatural.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1500410667
• ISBN 13: 9781500410667
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 140
• Editor: Dewey Steve, Carr Gogh S